THE SUPPLY OF NON-DEGRADED AGRICULTURAL LAND

Harry Clarke

Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1992, vol. 36, issue 01, 26

Abstract: Profitability increases because of favourable product or factor price changes provide incentives for profit-maximising farmers, who use soils in conjunction with other cooperant inputs, to increase their investment in the preservation of soil-quality, whenever there exist economically viable technologies for preserving soils. However, when such technologies do not exist, regardless of whether farmers utilise soils as non-renewable or renewable resources, such profitability increases are associated with a long-run deterioration in soil quality.

Keywords: Land; Economics/Use (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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